The spatial variability of surface reverberation under high and lowwind speeds

Two-dimensional images of broadband ocean reverberation in deep water have been made from explosive source data. The effective spatial resolution is 1 m×10 m for the frequency band of 120-1430 Hz. This paper presents two typical images for wind speeds of 4 and 17 ms^-1 . The high wind case exhibits substantial spatial variability on the scale of 100 meters that is not observed in the low wind case. These results have significance for the evaluation of hypotheses for wind induced surface reverberation